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Sunday, November 8, 2009
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  • "I love the retail broker business because my dad is a broker and my grandfather was a broker and it was the first job I ever had. So if you are really, really good, call JPMorgan (JPM). We'd be happy to hire you," Jamie Dimon (.pdf), on Oct. 27. Friday, he did just that, hiring his dad and his five-man team away from Merrill Lynch (BAC).

This news story has 4 comments:

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    I'll never understand why anyone would use a broker. Its just a way to sign up to be fleeced.
    2009 Nov 08 09:21 AM Reply
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    Just what we need, Jamie Dimon, another cheerleader for the cheat, steal and lie school of capitalism.

    Send him where all the other Wall Street cheeleaders go, to that Retirement Village in the sky.
    2009 Nov 08 10:26 AM Reply
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    JP Morgan has a big advantage over a lot of its competitors. It has a LICENSE to steal, rather than merely the desire to do so.
    2009 Nov 08 02:27 PM Reply
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    Thus we come full circle and arrive at a new nobility and nepotism - sanctioned and supported by the supposed defenders of liberty in government - who sell out the people for the sake of power, money and ego.
    2009 Nov 08 03:19 PM Reply
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